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About Kent Institute of Business and Technology

Since the establishment of the institution in 1989, Kent Institute of Business and Technology’s motto ‘Ad Altiora’, or in English ‘Towards Higher Things’ symbolises the institution itself. The motto is a part of the Kent registered trade mark which captures the essential interrelationship between teaching and learning as students and teachers help each other out as well as working together in order to achieve both personal and Institute goals. Kent Institute of Business and Technology aims to provide students from various backgrounds with access to high quality, higher education and vocational education courses accredited in Australia. This will definitely stimulate and encourage the students’ critical thinking on issues relevant to their professional environment in a framework that fosters free, intellectual enquiry.

The mission of Kent Institute of Business and Technology is to provide students from all backgrounds with access to high quality, higher education and vocational education courses accredited in Australia and to stimulate and encourage critical thinking on issues relevant to the student’s professional environment in a framework that fosters free, intellectual enquiry. The primary goals of Kent Institute of Business and Technology are to:

advance knowledge and understanding by striving to improve the quality of Institute courses for students and the industries it serves;

establish and maintain links with industry and professional associations, aimed at ensuring Institute courses reflect current and anticipated industry needs;

foster and acknowledge excellence in teaching and service provision among all staff, including staff of local and offshore partners;

adopt best practices in education, training and business from around the globe;

stimulate and encourage critical thinking on issues relevant to the student’s professional environment in a framework that fosters free, intellectual enquiry;

create an environment which encourages staff and students to undertake researach;

encourage students from all backgrounds to undertake well constructed and balanced courses which enable them to further and develop their career options and opportunities to contribute to society in Australia and overseas; and,

transform students into competent professionals with well developed learning skills, a wealth of understanding, knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours which will enable them to continue to learn and succeed in highly competitive environments.

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Kent Institute of Business and Technology was established in October 1989. Kent was known as the Centre of Academic Excellence Pty Ltd trading and The Centre of Academic Excellence. In the year 1989, Kent Institute operates as an Information Technology (IT) training centre that provides short courses which focuses on Office Applications and basic IT programs. Kent Institute is located in the suburb of Burwood, Sydney. Kent only enrolled 80 students when they first open.

In 1990, Kent developed two courses; 2 years Diploma in Business and Diploma in Business Computing. One lecturer from University of NSW who is also a member of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) wrote the first curriculum, which is Business Diploma. On the other hand, Business Computing course was written by the current Managing Director in Kent, Kelvin Chu. Kelvin Chu is the member of the Australian Computer Society and he was also one of the founders of The Centre of Academic Excellence. Later, the Centre joined the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) which originated from Australian Council for Independent Business Colleges in 1992. ACPET provides the student fee protection insurance for Kent Institution since then. The name of the institution was change to Kent during the year 1993 and the institution was relocated to 60 Druitt Street, Sydney.

In 1994, Kent Institute register through the Vocational Education Training Accreditation Board (VETAB) as a Registered Training. In that year also, student enrolments were approximately 100 in English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS), 300 in Information Technology and 150 in Business Management. By 2009 Kent had enrolled over 7000 students for over twenty years in history and had in excess of 3,500 graduates. Kent currently has twenty qualifications on its scope of registration. It offers qualifications from Certificate III to Advanced Diploma in the NSW jurisdiction. In 2010, Kent was the subject of a Federal Government’s CRICOS audit required of all CRICOS providers.

Kent Institute has 2 campus; Melbourne campus and Sydney campus. And each campus have only two certified area of study which are Vocational Education Training (VET) and Higher Education School. VET are for diploma students while Higher Education School are for Bachelor Degree students. VET has two schools:

VET Business School

VET Information Technology School

Kent's campus in both Melbourne and Sydney are located in the central of each area of the city. Both campus are also situated near to all amenities and facilities. Public transportation are easily accessible as well.

Kent Institute of Business and Technology does not provide On-campus accommodations for students. The students will have to independently search rent houses/ rooms with the help from the institution or real estate agencies in that area.

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